shouldn't hardware mode be better? since the load will be put on gpu instead of entirely on cpu? anyway, to confirm this, I change it to software mod and the menu ran up to 80% cpu utilization (with hardware, it was 50%). So I tried native resolution.. no speed gain there. still 24 fps. So I guess this is not a gpu problem? also tried the speed hack 3x with all 3 left options checked. gain 2 fps...